Thanks for the suggestions. I'm going to be busy today entertaining an out-of-town visitor, but I may try one or both of these options tomorrow.
Or, I may not. I bought this unit refurbished from a local shop, and I can still return it for another week. I'm thinking that I may trade it in for something that might be more compatible. They also have some older generation HP ProDesk and EliteDesk units, some Dells, and a couple of Lenovos. Do you (or anyone reading this) have recommendations on which brand(s) and/or generation(s) might be better suited to running NetBSD? Cheers, Jeff-- Secured with Tuta Mail: https://tuta.com/free-email Sep 18, 2026, 01:49 by [email protected]: > On Thu, 17 Sep 2026, Jeff wrote: > >> Thanks for the suggestion. I spent a lot of time poking around in the bios, >> and could not find any way to enable legacy boot. Did some Internet >> searching and found an HP support thread indicating that they had removed >> support for legacy booting for "security reasons". :-( >> > > On Thu, 17 Sep 2026, Jeff wrote: > >> However, trying again with the asterisk did not produce any better results. >> :-( >> > > See if you can boot the NetBSD kernel using GRUB2. You don't need to install > Linux on the same disk. Even a live image of a distro will do if you can add a > GRUB config. entry like: > > ``` > menuentry 'NetBSD DIAG' --class netbsd --class bsd --class os > $menuentry_id_option 'netbsd-diag' { > search --fs-uuid 65b9cab479e274bc --hint hd0,gpt10 --set root > insmod ufs > set gfxpayload=1920x1200 > # set root=(hd0,gpt10) > # knetbsd /netbsd --root=dk9 > knetbsd /netbsd > boot > } > ``` > > Just change the FS UUID and partition names to suit. > > One other thing: does reducing (or adding) RAM get it booting? Does removing > 8GB work, for instance? > > -RVP >
